XnView Software

It is claimed that the Quick Search bar, allows you to search within categories
..but that doesn't work.

If I write "sword", it filters the filenames that have "sword" in them, but not the images that have the "sword" category.
Also, you can have multiple categories, with the same name... (though not the same path, within the category tree)

Edit:
Also, if I want to find image(s) with X in the filename, I don't necessarily want results that has a category called X, and vice versa...

what do you have in 'Settings>Browser>Quick search'?

Categories is marked.
As is the default.
Yet I've never been able to use it, to search categories.

In a folder, with eight pictures that have the category of sword, I get this result, as an example. (the middle image, doesn't have the sword category. Just, for some inexplicable reason, "sword" in the file name)

'quick search' search in filename too

xnview wrote: Wed Aug 23, 2023 9:41 am 'quick search' search in filename too

It ONLY searches in the filmename.
As I said, there are EIGHT images with a "sword" tag, in that folder. Add the one with sword in the filename, and you get nine.
Yet only three are displayed. Just the ones, with "sword", in the filename.

i've tried, and it works correctly. If you select your 8 images, do you see the checkbox in Categories panel for sword?

xnview wrote: Sat Aug 26, 2023 1:18 pmi've tried, and it works correctly.

It has NEVER worked for me, regardless of version.

If you select your 8 images, do you see the checkbox in Categories panel for sword?

Yes, of course.

do you use 'base path' in Settings>catalog?

xnview wrote: Sun Aug 27, 2023 7:32 am do you use 'base path' in Settings>catalog?

Yes. How/why would that matter?

Thanks to your detailed description I can reproduce the problem.

This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 1.5.4. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.

xnview wrote: Tue Sep 05, 2023 1:32 pm This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 1.5.4. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.

I'll check
...but I see no mention of it, in the changelog.

philalethia wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2023 2:14 am

xnview wrote: Tue Sep 05, 2023 1:32 pm This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 1.5.4. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.

I'll check
...but I see no mention of it, in the changelog.

it's the bug "Quick search & base path"

Base path?